Vergil: Interrogātiō Oblīqua to Subiūncta Clausula in Ōrātiōne Oblīquā

Vergil's words: conticesco, extendo, cumque

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   Conticuēre omnēs, intentīque ōra tenēbant.

   They all fell silent, and held their faces turned to him, intent.

   Conticuēre

   omnēs,omnis: every, all

   intentīqueintentus: eager/intent, closely attentive

   ōraora: shore, coast

   tenēbant.teneo: hold, keep
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   Et dubitāmus adhūc virtūte extendere vīrēs,

   And do we still hang back from spreading our strength by worth,

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   Quī tē cumque manent istō certāmine cāsus,

   Whatever chances wait for you in that contest,

Vergil's words: Penātes, āerius, caelicola

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   advectum Aenēān classī vīctōsque penātīs

   that Aeneas has been carried in with a fleet and is bringing his beaten household gods

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   nec tū mē āeriā sōlam nunc sēde vidērēs

   and you would not be seeing me now alone in a seat of air,

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   surgit, caelicolae medium quem ad līmina dūcunt.

   throne, and the dwellers in heaven lead him, in their midst, to the doorway.

Vergil's words: ordior, loco

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   ulterius temptāre vetō.” Sīc Iuppiter ōrsus;

   I forbid you to try further.” So Jupiter began;

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   moenia prīma locō, fātīs ingressus inīquīs,

   I lay out my first walls, having entered on them under unkind fates,

Aeneid I. 128–130; Aeneid I. 348–352

Aeneid I. 753–755; Aeneid II. 1

Vergil's words: nimius, decet, ēruo

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   tantum īnfēlīcem nimium dīlēxit amīcum.”

   he only loved an unlucky friend too much.”

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   Mortālin decuit violārī volnere dīvom,

   Was it fitting that a god be violated by a mortal wound,

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   ēruam et aequa solō fūmantia culmina pōnam.

   I will tear up, and lay its smoking roofs level with the ground.

Vergil's words: aēnus, cuspis, laetor

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   lītore aēna locant aliī, flammāsque ministrant.

   others set bronze pots along the beach and tend the fires.

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   Huic comitem Asbȳtēn coniectā cuspide mittit.

   He sends Asbytes after him for company with a thrown point,

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   Pergama, nec veterum meminī laetorve malōrum.

   has been torn down, and I take no pleasure remembering the old evils.

Vergil's words: rādix, pīnus

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   dētulerat fīxam et lenta in rādīce tenēbat.

   down to this place and fixed it, and the tough root held it.

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   quam sacrās dabitur pīnūs. Vōs īte solūtae,

   to burn before he is given my holy pines. You, go free,

Aeneid I. 212–213; Aeneid I. 482

Aeneid II. 596–597; Aeneid IV. 597–599

Vergil's words: truncus, regnātor, āvulsus

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   Trunca manū pīnus regit et vestīgia firmat;

   A lopped pine in his hand steers him and steadies his steps;

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   rēgnātor, caelum ac terrās quī nūmine torquet;

   from bright Olympus, who turns sky and earth with his will;

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   āvolsumque umerīs caput, et sine nōmine corpus.

   the head torn from the shoulders, and a body with no name.

Vergil's words: viscus, coruscus, irruo

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   Vīsceribus miserōrum et sanguine vēscitur ātrō.

   He feeds on the innards of wretched men and on black blood.

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   Vix positum castrīs simulācrum, ārsēre coruscae

   Hardly was the image set down in camp when flame flickered

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   mē referō: inruerant Danaī, et tēctum omne tenēbant.

   I take myself. The Danaans had broken in and held the whole house.

Vergil's words: excidium, portendo

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   ventūrum excidiō Libyae: sīc volvere Parcās.

   would come for Libya's ruin: so the Fates were spinning it.

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   Nunc repetō haec generī portendere dēbita nostrō,

   Now I recall that she foretold these things as owed to our line,

Aeneid I. 21–22; Aeneid II. 199–200

Aeneid II. 756–757; Aeneid III. 184–185

Vergil's words: hospitium, potis, ascio

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   permittit patria? Hospitiō prohibēmur harēnae;

   allows this custom? We are kept from the welcome of the sand;

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   Vōs animam hanc potius quōcumque absūmite lētō.”

   Do you rather use up this life of mine by whatever death you please.”

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   Spem siquam adscītīs Aetōlum habuistis in armīs,

   If you had any hope in the Aetolian arms you called in,

Vergil's words: glomero, exiguus, comminus

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   sed glomerāre manum bellō et concurrere in arcem

   but the spirit burns to gather a company for the fight and run

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   exiguam pretiō posuit, cui lītus arandum

   a paltry town for a price, to whom we gave a shore to plow

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   Nōn cursū, saevīs certandum est comminus armīs.

   It is not to be settled by running, but hand to hand, with savage arms.

Vergil's words: permitto, rogus

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   permittit patria? Hospitiō prohibēmur harēnae;

   allows this custom? We are kept from the welcome of the sand;

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   Dardaniīque rogum capitis permittere flammae.”

   and let the flame take the pyre of that Dardanian head.”

Aeneid I. 539–540; Aeneid II. 266–267

Aeneid II. 314–316; Aeneid II. 361–362